(Baltic Times-Latvia) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday visited Paneriai [Ponar to the Jews, Ponary to the Poles, Paneriai to the Lithuanians], a Vilnius, Lithuania, neighborhood where over 100,000 people, mostly Jews, were killed during World War Two. Netanyahu said his grandfather had been severely beaten near what he called "a forest of death." Netanyahu said he had learned two lessons from the Holocaust. "First, we must fight barbarism or it will burn all of us. The second for us, Jews, is that we must never be defenseless again." Netanyahu's grandmother Sarah Mileikowsky was born in Seduva, Lithuania, and his grandfather Nathan Mileikowsky was born in Kreva, in what is now Belarus.
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